The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, August 25, 1881, Image 2
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TR1EEL EDTWN WINNSBORO, S.CU., AUGUST 26,18.ESALHD 8.
TIHE LULLABY OF THE FLOWERS.
Wept the flowers sadly,
For the day was dying,
And'the fidkle sunbeams
To the West were flying,
In the arms of sunset
Day its last was breathing,
And its shroud, the twilight,
Busily was weaving.
Caine a zephyr sighing
"Slumber sweet my ilowers I
Night's dark sway Is gruesome,
Sleep the weary hours."
Still the mournful blossoms
For the day were weeping,
And their tears, the dewdrops,
'Tween the leaves were peeping.
Then, with gentle pity,
Nightingales caine singing,
Tlirll'd their soothing music
O'er the meadows ringing.
0oon the weary flowers
Blistilly were dreaming,
'Til the larks awoke then,
When the sun was beaming.
A GIRL'S HEROIC ACT.
A quiet country road, and a carriage
drawn by two spirited ponies, who
tossed their heads and arched their
graceful necks as if they were enjoying
to the utmost their own rapid motion.
Such was the scene.
In the carriage were seated two young
ladies.
The older of the two was guiding,
with a firm hand, the restless ponies.
She was not a beautiful girl, you would
think, at first sight ; but her refined
face, with its broad, intellectual fore
head, and the proud poise of the small
head set upon an erect, finely moulded
figure, made a picture very attractive to
the eye.
Her companion was a perfect coni
trast.
"Lovely I" was the adjective which
would rise involontarily to the lips upon
seeing her. Great silky masses of
golden hair swept back from a brow
pure as alabaster, while the dark,
lustrous eyes were in vivid contrast to
the peachy fairness of her complexion;
her mouth was an incarnation of sweet
ness with its delicious rose-red curves;
while boneath, the rounded chin was
cleft with a roguish dimple.
"Nip and Tuck seem in good spirits
this morning, Annis," said May, as
they flow away.
"Have you thought that if I return
home when papa wants me too, that this
will be our last drive ?"
- Annis enthoor1d tihe Vills in one hand.
and quickly passed the other around
her friend's slight waist, as she said :
"I do hate to think of your going, my
darling I I have enjoyed these few
weeks to the utmost. But I know your
father needs you, and I must not be
selfish."
As she spoke thus lovingly, a sudden
resolve came into May's face. She
hesitated a moment, then drawing off
her glove she held her small left hand
up before.Annis's eyes.
On the third finger in its enamel
setting, gleamed a large solitaire pearl.
After one surprised look, Annis ex
claimed reproachfully:
Why, May, can it be that you are
engaged, and have never told in of
it?"
A bright flush suffused May's ex
pressive face as she replied :
"Yes, Annis, you have guessed
rightly. I meant to tell you long ago
but somehow it is hard for me to speak
freely of my own feelings, and it is all
so recent I hardly can believe it myself
yet. 'But I do realize one thing-that
the one who placed this upon my finger
is the noblest and best of men, and you
will agree with me when I tell you who
be is--for you know him, Annis. One
day, soon after our engagement, I was
speaking to Mr. Coleridge of our visit
I was going to make you at 'Greyhurst'
this fall, and when I mentioned your
name lhe said at once that lie know you
well--had met you wvhen you wvere at
your uncle's."
As the girl's happy voico~ spoke these
words a sudden pallor overspread her
listener's features. But not noticing,
May ivent onm:
"I suppose you wvonder how I became
acquainted with him. Well, it happened
this way : Our minister wvas called
away by his mother's illness, and Mir.
Coleridge came to take his place, and
papa invited him to make his home with
us during his stay."
As her friend shope) Annie's thoughts
had flown back to the p~ast year. She
remembered how her interest had been
caught at her first sight of the young
clergyman, whom her uncle had brought
home with him one evening, and how
the oftenor she saw him the deeper that
-thterest grew, until suddenly she be
came aware that unconsciously she had
given away, unsought, her girlish
heart.
It was true that Italph Coleridge had
never acted toward her in a lover-like
way ; but Annis could not help the love
which had so strongly entwined itself in
her heart.
Then had come the announcement of
the death of her father's emily brother,
and that lie had left her his sole heiress.
Then she had been obliged to lease the
quiet little home in which she had beenm
so happy to enter upon her' duties as
mistress of stately "Greyhurst." She
had had many suit4gi-a since ; b~ut hier
heart yet remained true to its first im
pression. Now she sa* that the future
to which she had looked with the hope.
fulness of youth had held no bright
possibiflties for her,. wt
effort Annis regained her self-control
and said, calmly, as she kissed the little
ungloved hand which had nestled itself
in her own :
"Then Ralph Coleridge is the happy
man? Indeed I do congratulate you,
May; for he is, as you say, good and
noble. As a wife you cannot help but'
be happy."
When the girls had driven away from
"Greyburst" the sun was shining
brightly, but, though they had not notic
ed it, in the distance there had been a lit
tle cloud "like a man's hand," and now
all at once they became conscious of the
storm gathering about them. With a
frightened face Annis suddenly exclaim
ed, as she turned towards home :
"WO must hasten, May, for the ponies
are afraid of lightning."
Rapidly onward came the ominsously
threatening clohads, while now and then
the thunder rolled its sonorous peals.
Annia was a good horsewoman, and
now with a steady hand she held the
reins, while she urged Nip and Tuck to
their fullest speed.
Suddenly, as they were upon the brow
of a long, steep hill, at the end of which
the road turned abruptly to the right, a
vivid flash of forked lightning shone be
fore their eyes.
With one terrified bound the ponies
were off at a mad pace. Nothing could
stop them. Of no avail were the girlish
figures whicli endeavored to check their
wild career.
Standing erect, Annis retained her
grasp upon the reins; but her eyes
dilated with an agonized expression as
she saw the almost certain destruction
which lay before them. At the foot of
the hill which they were swiftly de
scending was a high stone wall.
"Annis," exclaimed May, "can you
stop them before they get to the foot of
the hill?"
In low, intense tones came the hope
less answer:
"No, May; I can do nothing with
them. We are doomed !"
With a sobbing cry May bowed her
head upon her hands.
"Ralph ! Ralph ! Can it be that I
shall never see you again ? 0 ! it is so
hard to die so young and so happy I"
As Annis heard the piteous words a
sudden determination flashed into her
mind. She had once read of a brave
-decd which at the time had filled her
with marvel. Could she not do the
same thing herself, and save her friend's
life?
For herself it did not matter; she was
alone in the world; but for May-should
her life be spared-a future of happiness
with him she loved so dearly stretched
out before her. Stopping, she said
quietly :
"May, listen; do not give way. I
think that before long I can check this
terrible speed, and in that instance do
you jump from the carriage."
May looked wonderingly into Annis's
face, scarce comprehending her words.
"Check that terrible speed ?" It seemed
certainly morethan human power could
do.
"Now, May," cried Annis. With
these word she had made a desperate
spring, and the next moment she had
landed squarely upon the back of one
of the ponies, and had grasped the
cheek-rein with all her force..
With a startled plunge the ponies
stopped--then reared wildly and stood
pawing the air with their hoofs.
"Jump, May I jump for your life I"
cried Annia ,- and May obeyed.
A few wild phwges, and then with a
snort and scream the two ponies dashed
on, shaking from her insecure seat the
brave girl.*
The storm was over. 'ho clouds had
dispersed, and once more the sun came
forth in royal splendor. His rays fell
upon a pitiful scene. Upon twvo girlish
forms-one, yet living, but unconscious
where she had fallen-the other, still
and quiet, with the uolemn seal of death
set upon the white, bruised face.
Annis had saved her friend's (and her
lunconscious rival's) life at the, expense
of her own.
Another summer had come and gone
and it was fall again. In one of Nature's
loveliest spots, shadowed by a drooping
olmn, near which a limpid stroamlet
glided with a happy murmur on its way
to the sea, a marble shaft reared its
snowy head.
The sunshine glancing through the
leaves, dropped a gentle kiss upon the
grave beneath, and fell upon the bowed
hmeads of two mourners. It was Ralph
and his newly made wife, and in softly
whispered tones they talked together of
her who slept below., to whose heroic
deed both owed the happiness which life
had already given ai1fi still held for them
in the years to come.
Whiy Teeth Deay.
One great cause of decayed teethi is
drinking cold liquids immediately after
having had some hot article in the mouth.
The heat expands the enamel covering
of the teeth, and the cold contracting
it suddenly causes it to crack, and thus
exposing to the air the structure of the
tooth proper, allows it to decay. Another
prolific cause is want of cleanliness.
Particles of food clinging to the crevices
between the teeth cause them to decay.
So you should always brush your teeth
well after eating. Do not neglect this
easily performed duty; it will not only
serve to protect your teeth and keep
them in good condition, but a nice, clean
sweet mouth will have a great influence
in making you feel well all over, while a
mouth full of decayed food will give you
a bad taste~ a foul breath and a rotten
mouth, wich will tend to depress your
system and make you feel nxot only im
pure to yourself, but will render you
I offensive to your companions.
The DllI-lUnger and a Brave Boy.
Aquasco is such an out-of-the-way
town that no doubt many of the chil.
dren never have heard of it before. It
is in the State of Maryland and stands
on a little hill near the snouth of Pa
tuxont river. In the summer time no
girl or boy of Aquasco ned go to the
seashore, for salt water flows at their
feet and the same salt breeze that sweeps
fleet after fleet of white-sailed ships up
and down the Chesapeake bay blows in
at the windows of the houses in Aquas
co. The good people of Aquasco go to
bed so soon after supper that the whip
poor-will cries and complains without
one person to pity him ; and the grunt
of the bull-frog is the only voice that
answers the whirr and ring of the clocks
when they strike 12, midnight.
So it was mnat when in the middle of
the night of the 25th of last. Juine, Cy
rus Wallace, an Aquasco boy, heard
the church bell ringing, he sprang
quickly out of bed and ran barefooted
into the street. As he reached the gate
he saw men running by at the top of
their speed.
" What's the matter ?" shouted Cyrus
to one of the flying figures.
"A fire, I guess," said the man.
"Fire, fire, fire !" shrieked Cyrus, as
he ran after the others. In a few minutes
the whole town of Aquasco was arous
ed. Everybody was in the street and
everybody was hurrying towards the
church. Women seized water buckets
and children gathered up pails. Aquas
co had been very still five minutes be
fore, but now Aquasco was beside itself
with excitement.
But where was the fire? The first
man who reached the church put his
hands to his mouth and hallooed to the
top of the bell tower, where the bell was
still clanging away. The second man
did the same and the third called aloud
and so did the fourth. Not a word
would the person in the bell-tower an
swer, though lie rang and rang, until
all Aquasco gathered oi the grass be
low.
"The door of the steeple is locked,"
said one of the men. 'Nobody under
stands it."
"Maybe sonic rascal got locked in
there yesterday and fell asleep," said
Mr. Rankin the constable.
"No, no," replied Mr. Westeont, the
sexton Af thn enmrmh. 'T wnu np th. ink
the afternoon, and there wasn't anybody
in the tower ; it's a spirit or a goblin,
that's what it is I" and Mr. Westcoat
shook his head, while some of the child
ren huddled together and held their
breath.
"It's old Tappen's ghost," continued
Mr. Westcoat. "Tappen was sex'ton
before I was, and lie rang that bell utp
there for twenty years. He's come
back."
Cyrus laughed when lie heard the
sexton say such things. Cyrus knew
very well that only cowards believed in
ghosts. He was afraid of big dogs and
drunken men, but common sense told
him that there is no such thing as a
ghost or creature of the dark of any
kind.
"Give mA the keys," said a mpn to
the sexton, "I'll go up) and stop) that
ringing." Thme sexton fumbled in his
pocket only to find that he had left the
keys at home, a half mile away. Glad
enough to get away from the haunted
church, the sexton started after the
keys. Meanwhile the bell still rang.
Every now and then the strokes would
be faint, but the next 'instant would
come a loud clang, as though the old
bell didn't like such mysterious work a
bit. The wind was blowing stifily in
the tops of the tall oak tress, but all
know that the wind could not ring the
bell because of the lattice work around
the belfry. While thme people wore
whispering together around thme church
Cyrus was busy looking for a way to
get into the belfry before the sexton
should return with the keys. He knew
that there was a little round window,
just large enough for him to crawl
through, sonic distance up the side of
the tower, and when lie at last got a
ladder that reached to this little window,
lie stepped boldly up the rounds.
"I'll bring down that ghost before
Mr. Westcat gets back," laughed
Cyrns, and the people could see him by
the dim starlight as lhe put his head
through the window and disappeared.
Cyrus found himself in a queer place.
It was so dark in the belfry that lie
couldn't smee where to nmove. He groped
from one step) to another, going up the
belfry stairs slowly, while the sound
from the bell above seemed to crash
down with tenfold clangor, lie reached
the crank which the sexton turnied when
ringing the bell. No one was there.
''Hello I ho, there, lie I" shouted Cy
rus directly into the bell's throat. But
the bell's roar drowned his words. He
climbed still higher and soon sat among
the rafters ab~ove the b)el1. H~e reached
dowvn and felt the air around the bell.
His hand struck something. 0 ho!I
thought Cyrus. lie felt the some..
thing and found that it was the limb of
a tree. Following the limb with his
hand lie found that the limb had thrust
itself through a big hole in the lattice
wvork. Every time the tall tree on the
outside rocked this limb moved quickly
forward and withdrewv again. Cyrus
laughed. He had found the ghost, for
he knew that the end of the lib had
caught the clapper of the boll and so
that every tima ti1.. t... w.. rocked~ 1.
the wind the clapper struck. He caught
the limb with both hands and gave a
hard, strong pull. The 'limb bent and 1
the bell stopped ringing. t
In the meantime the people were
waiting anxiously below. As soon as
the boll stopped Cyrus put his mouth t
to the hole in the lattice; and called out a
that it was all right. The sexton soon a
arrived with the keys, and taking a t
hatchet Cyrus chopped the bothersome t
limb in two. The people of Aquasco 1)
went to bed and imany laughed at the i
sexton's ghost. On the following day s,
a groat number visited the belfry to see 1i
the curious bell-ringer. It was found 0
that an army of flying-squirrels had cut a
the hole in the lattice work, and that I
the wind had forced the limb of the ii
neighboring oak through the opening. i
A little prong near the end of the limb f
had caught the clapper near its point, t
and so the wind made its novel bell- y
ringer. it
a
Driving Partridges.
According to the modern system, half a
a dozen guns and half a dozen beators, f,
each with a retriever behind him, walk
in line through the turnips, going from ,
one field to another, knocking over the N
birds as they rise in front of then like t
pigeons, never stopping to look for a 1)
runner or caring to mark a covey. This a
method of proceeding, in time, becomes a
exceedingly monotonous, and it is no v
wonder that mon have ceased to care 3
about a day's shooting as they used to n
do. To leave the house about 11, after o
a lounge in the stable-yard with a cigar, 11
to march through the turnips for two or ']
three hours, and then to find a sumptu- n
ous lunch laid out for them in a farm a
house, with champagne, hot cutlets, b
lobster salad, and what not, and to walk 13
again for two hours afterward, returning d
home to finish the day with billiards be r(
fore the late dinner, is now the regular y
practice with many men who 80 years o
ago would have- worked hard from 9 h
o'clock to 6, and have taken more plea- o
sure ii seeing their dogs work than in :
making the largest hag. Another con- t:
sequence of the want of cover which is d
now experienced on most manors is that t
the practice of driving birds has come 1
into fashion, not only late in the season &
or among Frenchmen, but early in Sop- t
tomber and where the birds are all Eng- n
lish. There is no --naxen to describe
this branch of the sport at any length. t
The shooters are either placed in little n
huts or behind screens of boughs set up t
for the occasion, or, when the sport is e
extemporized, behind the tallest hedge y
that can he found within the probable t
range of flight, and the birds are then m
driven toward the guns by as large a r
party of men as can be mustered. Skill 11
and directions aro required both in driv- -
ing the birds and in shooting them when <d
driven. Partridges are no exception to r
what is the rule with almost all animals, a
wild or tame; they are very "orkard" to (
drive. Try to drive sheep through a
gateway, or even cows or horses,and the r
chances are that many of them head
back and give you a run round the field t
again after them. And so it is with 1
birds. Unless the line of the beaters is i
formed in a proper crescent, and the 14
flight af the birds has been very aceu
rately studied, not one covey in half a
dozen will come the right way. When, 1
however, it is propecrly managedl,and the e
guns are in good hands, the process is a
murderous. Almost every bird in a3
covey conies within shot of some one, I
and a party of five or six guns may kill f
their 80 or 40 brace in this manner,i
where by the ordinary method they
would not kill a quarter of the number.
Something else, too, which we have as
yet omitted to mention has had a good ,
deal to do with the change which has
come over partridge-shooting during the
last few years. As the early period was
the flint period, so this third may be
styled the breech-loading period. The
quickness with which men ean now load
makes them want to fire oftenor, and, as
no one ever stands still to load his gun;
the dogs, where they are still used,ceaseI
to down charge and grow wild and wil
futl. More birds are probably killed now
in good seasons than our grandfathers ~
ever dreamed of. Still it can hardly bo
called sport, and is certainly not com
parable with the old style of shooting,
which delighted our forefathers, and by
wvhich in former times so many mcen of
eminence have lightened the cares of
state and refreshed tho overwrought?
braini reeling uinder the weight of em
Hydrophobia.
Gottleib Elsasser, a Prussian doctor
who (lied in Philadelphia some time since, I
gave what he said to be a never-failing t
cure for hydrophobia obtained from his I
uncle who was p~ound-mnaster in Berlin.
The following is Elsassor's remedy:
'Beneath the tongue of every human be
ing there are two large veins, whose
blackness renders them easily distini- "
guishable. When any one is afilicted I
with hydrophobia, cut those open1 with t
a pair of small scissors or any usharp) In- t
strument, and allow the blood to trickle
out. This rids the p)atient of thme virus.
Then make a tea of lupulin, the seeds of
the hop vine, and gave the patient a oup- t
ful. TIds will at once put him to sleep f
without having the injurious effect that t
would follow the administration of opium. .
In four or five hours the patient will
awake. Then give him another cupful of
tea, and continue this treatment until lie S
has slept for twenty-hours. Hie will then *
be entirely enrodf
Fights with whales.
'Yes, we did see something of a vehool
f sperm whales," said Captain King, of
lie steamer Tropic, but it was a good
rays off' and we didn't take especial no
Loe. We were bowling along at about
m knots an hour with a light )reeze
nd a fair Fea,iin latitude 34 dog. 28 min.
nd longitude 74 deg. 24 min. I had
rie wheel and was talking with one of
le 11101, when all at once I saw as
retty a sperm whale sl)out as I ever saw
I my life. Am I sure about it? I should
iy I was, for I am an ol whaleman,
avilg started to follow the sea in an
Id-time whaler. Tile whale was going
bout south-southwest, I should think
t was going slowly and evidently hav
ig a good time. After awhile I saw
nother one following and swinuning
ist, as if to catch up with the first one.
rext day Isaw another whale a great
'ays off, but I couldn't tell which way
, was going. There may have been a
shool of them, but I didn't see only
iree. Sperm whales stray in that part
the ocean only once ini a great while,
id then they are probably chasing their
ivorite food.
"Sometimes they are dangerous to
'hale hunters, especially when a 'erank'
hale is met.. I havo heard men say
iat the sperm whale will not show fight,
ut it struck me that they had never
tiled iii a whaler. The first fight with
sperm whale in which I took a hand
'as in 1869, when I was with the whaler
[ary G. Currie. We sighted oie after
oon a flue large whale, about five miles
in, and when we were near enough we
iffed up and lowered away the boats:
'he captain himself had one boat, the
late had one and an old whaler had
iother. I was with the mate. You
ave heard about whales running from
oats, but this one stood his ground and
idn't seem to he afraid of us. Our boat
sched him first, but as soon as the
hale saw us coming he caie at us 'bows
a.' We lost Io tnne in getting out of
is way and it made us laugh to see the
ther bontu dodge around. This made
to men a trifle nervous and when we
'ied hii again they backed away for
ear life, afraid to go near enough for
te harpooner to throw his weapon.
'his made the whale raving mad, and,
4 a consequence, we went so near noxt
mec that the whale ) opened his caver
ous .jaws and bit the boat in two.
'After the mon had been fished out of
.10 water )y the old whaler's hoat the
late got into the captain's boat aind
ied the whale again. When they start
EI the ImIate Stood ul inl the how anid
elled: "Tile first ian who looks out of
Ii boat at that whale will get stabbed
'ith this harpoon." Away they 'went
glit up to the spl)outer's head. The
arpoion was driven home and the ioat
-as backed away. The cold steel had
o011 its work well, for soon the sea was
ad with blood and the monster whale,
fter thrashing the water into foam, lay
ead.
"I wis in another fight with a whale
ear the same place, the Connell grounds,
1 1871. We came out of the fight with
wo smashed )oats and two or three dis
bled men, but we killed the whale. The
late I was with in the first fight was
illed two years ago ini a fIght with an
gly whale. I understand they fought
or three hours, but the whale got the
best of them. Hie w~as one of thecargest
ver seen and had a half dozen harpoons
icking in his hack. The mate was al
rays game and would never give upl,buit
.o met his matcli that time, It was a
ght to) the death and the mate went
ito one fight too many.
Hutman EfnuanIce in the Water.
M~en and animals are able to sustain
hemselves for long distances in the
rater, andl would do0 s0 much of tener
rere they niot incapacitated, in regard
f tho former at least, by sheer terror,
s well as complete ignorance of their
eal powers. Webb's wonderful endur
lice will never h)e forgotten. B3ut there
re other instances only less remarkable.
01110 years since, the secondc mate of a
hip fell overboard while in the act of
noisting a Hail, It was blowing fresh:
lhe time was night, andl the pla1ce soe
miles out in tihe stormy Gernman oceani.
'hie hardy fellowv, nevertheless, muan
ged to gain the English coast. Brock,
rith a dozeni other pilotf, wa'is plying for
rres by Yarmouth, and, as the main
heet was helayed, asuddeni pull'of wind
pse(t the boat, when presently all per
shed excep1t Brock himself, who, from
our in the afternoon of ani October even
rig to one the next morning, swam thiir
een miles before lie was able to) bail a
essel at anchor ini the offIng. Animals
lhemselves are capable of swimming im
uooine distances, although unable to rest
y the way. A (dog recently swam
hirty miles in America in order to rejoin
is master. A mule and a dog washed
verb)oard dutrinig a gale in the B~ay of
liscay have been known to make their
'ay to shore. A dog swam ashore with
letter in his mnllth at the Cape of Good
[ope. The crew of the ship to which
lie (log belonged all p~erished, which
icy need not have done had they only
entured to tread water as the dog did.
.s a certaini ship was laboring heavily in
lie trough of the sea, it was found neced
il, In order to lighten the vessel, to
lirow some troop-horses overboard,
rhtich had been taken in at Corunna,
'lie poo things, my informant, a staff4
lrgeon, told me,whuen they found them.
elYoB abandoned,faced round and swvam
wr mil ln after tlha ymrti
Chuiia Food.
It has been (uito pertinently remarke(
in regard to cook-books generally, that
when the cooks took their pos in lani
they rather had in their inds the prep
aration of a dinner-party than the daily
fare of an ordinary household. Such
criticisms, directed toward modern
works on the culinary art, are hardly
just, as both in Eingland and this coli
try many handy books have been com
piled, whose chief end is to teach the
ignorant how to prepare food in the most
economical manner. Perhaps, what is
not so fully explained as it should be il
many of these books, is what might bt
called the rationale of food values. The
most inquiring of housewives, thnunbing
her cook-book, when she comes across
some page or two devoted to the chemi
cal composition of food, generally skips
it, as she is only intent on finding out
how a charlotte russe is to be compound
ed. Still, these rather dry pages have
their use, and by no means diilicult tc
understand. It is by no means necessary
that the exact chemical coimosition of
food, its carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,
oxygen, sulphur, phospalites and othei
mineral salts should be memorized, but
the three specific characteristics of the
things we eat ought to be remembered.
In the briefest manner, then, food may
be separated into three classes, the al
buminoids, the hydro-carbons, and the
anti-scorbutics. The first are essentiallb
the builders-up and restorers of the body
the second are substances which tend tc
keep us warm; they are essentially the
coals which keop the engine going, and
the third are the preventives which keel
off disease and more especially scurvy.
An egg is an albuiminoid, butter is it
hydro-carbon, und cabbage an anti
scorbutic. An albuminoid makes tissue.
What men call "the strength" in food is
said to be derived from albuminoids,
but. this term is an eironeous one. Men
can nid do grew strong and'lusty when
partaking of the albumioids in the most
sparing way. The rice feeders of Hin
dustan are a notable example of this,
The hydro-earbons exist in all lithe
starches which are found in the cereals,
in sugars and in the fats. The anti
scorbuttics4, found in certain vegetables,
are as valuable as any other edible sub
stances, though their food value ma3
not be very great. Now, what.is notice
nll,' inl nll fh m ahrdo,''iiii m, o ro I n
in that many single things Iay posses
in themselves soie of these qualities,
For instance, meat has in the lean the
albuminoid, in its fat the hydro-carbon;
it has even, when fresh, a certain anti
scorbutic power. In milk, too, we hav.
the albimen, and most particularly an
anti-scorbutie power. We see, then,
that in a certain way nature hats giver
us in a single substance moore than oml
of those things necessary for life,hmt the
perfect unit, containing all in ipropm
proportions, doe, not exist. Hence th(
natural inclination we have to mnixowui
food. The dish of meat cooked witl
vegetables as a compound gives uin the
variety pleasurable to the palate and doe
sirable for our health. The human en
gine not only wants fuel and water, bi
as its grate bars are worn out it inns
possess5 the magical powers of self-re
storation. Just as in the rep~airs of
locomotive, thme head of the machine
shop looks out where he can tinid tlu
bmest and cheapest coal anod oil or mnateri
als, always having the cost in view; s<
muist we learn how to feed outrselves, ha
the study of food values, at the smualles
outlay of money. Now, in England a
present, where food is scare and monea
not plenty, it b~ecomles quite imuportan
that lessons of economy should be taugh
to all classes. If the b)are chance of lift
is not alone thought of, thourequirementi
of the workingmen-..hlose who plhow o:
dig or spin-are also an object of solici
tutde. What is the food, the cheapest
laborers can have, so that their thews
their sinew and nmuscle, shall be forth
coming? 1t. is curious to find that a re
tuirn has been made, by the analysis of
these alimentary substances, the h ydlro
gen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon to at
old1 English dish. Possibly the c'lassi<
pork andi beans was brought over froni
England to Plymouth Rock. English
writers on the economy of food, Si:
Henry TIhompsn~i and1( Dr. Paxy espe
cially, direct working people to the ex
cellence of beans, pens and lentils, whom
cooked with fat mecati such as bacon
buit wisely reqnire certain simple addi
tions, Now, why? Tihme beans conutah
the starch, the sugar-making properties
the fat the hydro-carbons. These ar<
albumninods and hydro-carblons, buit you:
anti-scorbutie is not present. TIhis wan
is suipplied by the addition of a vegeta
bl1e such as ant oione or a carrot. Tihu
value of anti-scorhutics in our food cai
not be overlooked. If the poorer classe:
can not indulge in salads, thme use e
which entails more or less exponsiyv
d oressinmgs, resource can b)0 had to soutr
kraut, the excellence of which has oftei
bee sttedin thtese columns. Then<
lessons as to the destruction of foo<
ought to be of tuse to oven those whi
know nothinig of want, and whose table
can be alwvays luxuriously futrnished. A
one time we Americans were horribl'
carnivorous. Meat three times a da:
.was quito common. Htunenduouis roast
are still very much in vogiue, an exces
of the albuminoid and tydro-carbon
while qutito often the vegetable tudjuinct
are in too diminished quanmtty. Such
I Titanesquec pieces of beef might bo vor'
Imuch pared down, and in the genera
menu retouurse _had to a more legumnou
Can't Stop a Minute.
Recently Mr. Sarsaper told his wife
one morning that he had got about tircd
of battering his bread with a spoon, and
so that day he sent home a refrigerator.
It was a beauty, and he felt proud of it,
so mnch so that he had a good deal to
say about it at the store.
"I suppose you have to put ice in it,
don't you ?" said one of the clerks.
"Certainly," said Mr. Sarsaper; "but
then it takes very little. It's an im
provement on all others ever made. Full
of little boxes and places for all sorts of
things. Keeps everything separate
meat., vegetables, milk and so on, with
out any mixing up.It makes hot weather
so nmch more comfortable, Bob, to pull
up to the table and find everything
nice, cool and crisp, instead of limp,
sour and slushy. We wouldn't be with
out it again for any money. I wish you'd
run in and look at it, Bob, the first-time
you're goitng by. It's a curiosity, and I
know you'll get one as soon as you see
it. Don't you bother about ceremony
run in at an.y time."
About 2 o'clock one morning, Mr. Bar
saper was awakened out- of his slumber
that always keeps companlly with an easy
co118cience, by his wife poking him in
the ribs, and calling on him to huutle
out, and see what the matter was. The
door wa.s jingling like all possessed.
Mir. Sarmaper crawled out of bed, and
after hanging his nose on the door post
till the blood started, giving himself a
black eye against the corner of the .man
tel, and falling down over pretty much
everything in the room, he finally made
his way to the front part of the house,
threw pl) a window and pecred out into
the wet and murky gloom.
'Who's there ?" he demanded, looking
dow-n at the top of an umbrella.
"Mle !" came in a thick voice from the
under side of it.
"Who's Ine."
"Bob."
"Oh I it's you, is it? What's the mni
ter, Bob ? anybody sick ?"
"Oh, no. You see I've been out to
Sodalmsville with sonme of the boys to
help institute ia lodge, and I'm just get
ting back. I happened to think about
that refrigerator of yours as I was going
by, and so I thought I'd stop in and see
it, without .cerelmony, as you said. Come
down and let me in. I'm in a hurry to
get home, and can't stop but a minute."
Mr. Oari..my'j,- iid nuAeLhaig that
would bend the types double if we
should undertake to print it, and slam
mned down the window.
He remarked to Bob the next day that
for downright coolness his refrigerator
was a hake-oven compared to the prank
praotised on him.
A Pecunllr Peopl1e.
Thle people of Hatteras Banks are of
an anbitious nature and live so much on
and in the water that most of them, I
am sure are web-footed. They livo
mainly oil fish, clams, oysters, crabs,
terrapins and wild fowl. When they
leave home they go in a boat, and
whether they go to court or go courting,
or to trade, or to mill, or to a funeral
they always go by sail. Their corn
iml s are rn by sails, and some of them
pump. their water with windmills. They
don't go up stairs, but "go aloft ;" and
when they go to bed they "turn in ;"
whlen1 they are ill they "are under thie
weather," and when in robust health
they say they are ''bung up and bilge
free." They spmeak of a trimbuilti sweet
heart as "clipper' built." If she ia a
liitle stout they say she is "broad in the
b 1eam," or she is "wide across the tran
8som." .Many ,of .them have ships' cabin
doors in their houses that slide on
grooves, and to their buiidings they give
a coat of tar instead of painting thorm.
Tho'old woman' blows a conoh shell when
dinner is ready, and they measure time
b~y '-bells." 'l'hoir babies are not rocked
im cradles, but swung in hammock's.
They chow~ black pig-tail tobacco, and
dirink a wild tea called "Yeopon." 'hey
manure their land with sea grass and
bury their yam potatoes in the sand
hills. When they want the doctor they
hang a red flag against a hill side as a
signal of distress. If he don't come,
because the '"wind ain't fair,"' they take
a drinm of ,whisky an~d copperas, soak
their feet in sea water, "turn in," and
trust to luck. If they die they will be
buried on the top of a sand rid'ge ; and
when you see several sail boats on 6he
water in procession, with a flag at half
mast, you are looking at a funeral.
Tihey ornament their houses with
whales' ribs and jaws, sharks' teeth,
swordlish snoots, devilfish arms, sawfishi
swords (six feet long), miniature ships,
camph or-wood chests, Honduras gourds,
spy-glasses, South American lariats, war
clubs from the Mozambique Islands,
Turkish pipes, West India shells, sandal-.
wood boxes, Chinese chesemmi, Japa
neso faces, Madagascar idols, Australian
boomerangs, and other strange outland
ish things. Their hogs are raised on
clams, mussels, offal of fish and garbage,
and their cattle wade out on the shos
for miles, where the water covers their
backs, to feed on sea-grass, andl if they
are carried up)-pountry and fed on corna
and fodder, they will not line.
Every muan Is cat~tain of some kind of
a boat, and "she" is always better than
any other beat in some way. "She is
hard to beat in a gale of wind," or "be
fore the wind,' or "beating to wind
ward," or "with the wind on the beam "
or "she can sail closer to the wind," o~r
'will carry sail longest,' or is hard to'beat.
m i a light wind," or "totes more stock,"
o (r is ''stronger," or "diryer " or "big
ger," or "she is a big little boat," or
"draws the least water'," or "needs less
ballast," or "has the best timbers," or
"steers the best," or "she is a hueoky
Ibeat," or "stands up better," or "need
lessi sail than any other boat 9' or "she
iIs best for' fisly g," &. Perbaps 4
"comes alfont better. than any other
lboat"- She is d(ito have somtethig
about her be itan any body else e